Jonny started gigging in 2000 and has notched up many hundreds of gigs across the UK.
He released FRIEND FOR ALL SEASONS, his debut album in Febuary 06. Sales are slow because he's crap at marketing but it really is quite good. He spent over a year making it having collaborated with a huge quantity of musicians to give it a truly heart warming feel and to give himself a big headache.
Jonny’s appeared live on BBC2, LBC and BBC Radio Leeds, and has performed FRIEND FOR ALL SEASONS live – to great acclaim – accompanied by the Royal Academy of Music Session Orchestra and conducted by Douglas Whyte. He’s also written a number of musicals; Corpus, a musical about preserving human corpses; Dude! Where's My Teddy Bear? - a rock n' roll existensial musical for kids; Cricklewood Broadway The Musical - the world's first multicultural high street musical which was comissioned by Kilburn's Tricycle Theatre for their youth drama groups; and with the stupendous Australian playwright Van Badham he has done a hip hop homage to ‘Waiting for Godot’ (WAITIN’ 4 DA G); and Cash in Christ for the 2007 Edinburgh festival, which was not liked by fundamentalist Christian nut jobs but the Church of England thought it was super and so did the Times. They're currently working on a Biomusical about Dean Reed, the greatest Soviet Rock Star that ever lived.
He also just sat in his lounge for a month and produced 'Please Do Not Bend' - a short album with some sparkly new tunes and some old ones too.
He has also inadvertantly become the resident Troubadour for the Guardian Science Podcast, which means that he gets to chat about science in a waay that sounds like he knows what he's talking about and then he gets to sing songs with long sciency words in. He enjoys long sciency words.
One day he hopes to win a Nobel Prize but recognises that its extremely unlikely.
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